.... day clothes for a sacred white ihram. An ihram is white cloth (two pieces of cloth for men and one piece of cloth for women) that is draped over the body. Ihrams symbolize the equality between men and women. It also represents being in the state of becoming muhrim. A muhrim is a Muslim who has entered the state of consecration appropriate to entering the sacred precincts of Mecca for the purpose of pilgrimage. After becoming a muhrim, fingernails and hair cannot be cut, perfume and cologne are not allowed to be worn and sexual activities are not allowed to be performed. Those are just some minute processes of many, which enable a person to achieve puri .....

.... of church and state when Congress opens each session with a Christian prayer? The following prayer was recited at the start of the November 30, 1994 session: We pray, O God, for the bread for the sustenance of our bodies and spiritual food for the nourishment of our souls. In a world where much seems to be discouraging and where problems appear at every corner, we pray that the human spirit will not be taught by cynicism or despair, but rejoice in the possibilities of every new day and accept all Your blessings with thanksgiving. Amen. For some people in the Congress this raises ser .....

.... by Pope Urban II. On November 27, 1095, he gathered his followers outside the French city of Clermont-Ferrand. He preached to these people and told them that action needed to be taken. In response, the people cheered and planned their attack. Urban II brought together all of the bishops and urged them to talk to their friends and fellow villagers and to encourage them to participate in the crusades. Small groups started to form and each group would be self- directing. All the groups planned their own ways to the Constantinople, where they would meet and regroup. They would attack the Turkish forces in Constantinople and hope to regain control of the city. Th .....

.... state and made them recipients of God's saving grace. Despite popular belief by Christians, those of us who are not part of their religion are not lost souls. Most of us just have a problem believing in something that their is no evidence of existence. I in fact am a baptized Methodist. I actually attended church every Sunday until I was 16 years of age. This was when I stopped blindly believing and started asking questions. When the preacher couldn't answer my question about my religion, I decided there must be something wrong if the person who is supposed to be the mouth piece of God cant tell me the answers. One problem that I have with is their bib .....

.... There is a strong correlation between the expulsion of prayer from our schools and the decline in morality. Morals must be taught, and they cannot properly be taught without religion. Another issue is the debate over constitutional rights. Many people do not support school prayer and feel it is unconstitutional. The constitution neither mandates nor prohibits prayer in schools. It does not say that is unconstitutional, therefore, it is not unconstitutional. One may argue that school prayer is unfair, divisive, or just plain dumb, but it is not unconstitutional, and apparently it will take an amendment to make that clear. Finally, there is the issue of chu .....

.... history and whose mysteries are still being unravelled. For twelve years following 1933 the Jews were persecuted by the Nazi's. Jewish businesses were boycotted and vandalized. By 1939,Jews were no longer citizens,could not attend public schools,engage in practically any business or profession, own any land, associate with any non-Jew or visit public places such as parks and museums. The victories of the German armies in the early years of World War II brought the majority of European Jewry under the Nazis. The Jews were deprived of human rights. The Jewish people were forced to live in Ghetto's which were separated from the main city. Hitler's plan of ge .....

.... but have been wrongly interpreted by `UFO fanatics' as proof that aliens built the pyramids. This leads non-believers to give little weight to what was "actually a true and proper religion". Since those primitive days the religion has developed enormously, but the biggest and most important advancements have only come in the past decade. Previously, followers had only gathered in what could be described as `sects' in many different countries, with the highest concentration being in North America. It wasn't until 1986 that Jeff Krantz, a 19 year old art student at the University of Michigan, started came to be known as `The Union', a wave of change that woul .....

.... to the sun or the concept of time because the sun was not created until the fourth “day”. Also the flood is another example of possible Biblical myth. Many questions asked are “where would that amount of water come from?” and “where would it all go afterward?” However, there is geological evidence of a universal deluge. An interesting fact of the Hebrew slavery is that there is no Egyptian records of there ever being Hebrew slaves nor the plagues claims preceded the release of the slaves. There also is no historical record of Moses’ existence outside . And there also is no physical trace of the Israelites’ 40-year journey across the Sinai wilderness. .....